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- The comic, courageous, and corpulent Horace Rumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny stories in which the "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness while he tiptoes precariously through the domestic territory of his wife, Hilda-She Who Must Be Obeyed!
- About the Author: John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.
- 210 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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The comic, courageous, and corpulent Horace Rumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny stories in which the "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness while he tiptoes precariously through the domestic territory of his wife, Hilda--She Who Must Be Obeyed!Book Synopsis
The comic, courageous, and corpulent Horace Rumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny stories in which the "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" triumphs over the forces of prejudice and mean-mindedness while he tiptoes precariously through the domestic territory of his wife, Hilda-She Who Must Be Obeyed! With his passion for poetry, and a nose equally sensitive to the whiff of wrongdoing and the bouquet of a Château Thames Embankment, the lovable and disheveled Rumpole "is at his rumpled best" (The New York Times).Review Quotes
"Wonderfully amusing . . . full of pithy writing . . . witty and opinionated." (The Wall Street Journal) "In this sparkling collection of stories . . . our hero's usual grumpy but soft-hearted wit is in full force." (The Seattle Times) "Mortimer spins his stories with sly panache, allowing the barrister to overcome dunces of all stripes with an understated sense of humor." (The Boston Globe)
About the Author
John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.Dimensions (Overall): 7.77 Inches (H) x 5.05 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .37 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 210
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Format: Paperback
Author: John Mortimer
Language: English
Street Date: November 25, 2003
TCIN: 92437976
UPC: 9780142003473
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-7624
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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